About Quote by Brian Posehn

There is no difference between alternative and traditional club comedy. People think there's a difference, but I don't think so. It's like gay men…

— Brent Weinbach

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre…

— Tony Robinson

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

— Kurt Cobain

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of…

— Peter Kay

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough…

— Patton Oswalt

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with…

— Eugene Mirman

Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.

— Ben Miller

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the…

— Thurston Moore

Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I…

— Lee Mack

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

— Limmy

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman